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How to Turn Your Food Pantry Into a Community Co-op

“Our food pantry has been feeding the same families for years. Is there anything we can do to bring about long term transformation in people’s lives?” The leaders who ask this question know that their clients don’t merely lack food, but they also often suffer from a lack of community and self-worth.

Book Highlights

Kingdom Collaboration in a Competitive World: A Look at Rooting for Rivals

In their book, "Rooting for Rivals," authors Peter Greer and Chris Horst implore non-profit leaders to link arms in pursuit of a vision beyond the boundaries of their own organization in order to see the Kingdom of Heaven advance in a strife-ridden world.

Policy Analysis

Are Private Charities Able to Provide for Americans Currently on SNAP?

On May 26, 2021, TCI Executive Director James Whitford testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Agriculture regarding whether to expand SNAP benefits. During that hearing, Vice-Chair Alma S. Adams (D-NC) posed the question in the title of this article. James provides his response.

Charity Features

Therapeutic Community: How a Residential Program Teaches Clients to Hold Each Other Accountable

Challenging, relational programs are an effective path to life transformation. The only downside to such models is that they usually require a high ratio of staff and volunteers to clients. Ascent Recovery proves that there is another way.

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The Profitable Charity: Encouraging Nonprofits to Create Some of Their Own Funding

Have you wrestled with a growing sense that charity alone isn’t enough to solve the world’s deepest problems? Whether it’s feeding the hungry, ending human trafficking, providing clean water or translating Scripture, nonprofit leaders have been looking for ways to increase impact without creating fatigue for their financial donors.

Program Design

What Is Community Development, and How Do I Start?

The phrase “community development” can bring up images of everything from trash pickups to bike lanes to block parties. What really is community development, and how can your church or organization incorporate it into your work? Community development can be so nebulous because it is, very simply, members of the community coming together to make their community better. So, what do beautification projects and festivals and mixed income housing have to do with poverty?